“Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, it’s off to work we go (whistle), heigh-ho, heigh-ho, heigh-ho, heigh-ho, heigh-ho.”

The world’s gone bloody mad I thought.

But, back to that in a minute.

How many times do we hear those words these days, “the world’s gone bloody mad”. Once upon a time in Australia, “she’ll be right mate” or “how ya goin’ mate” were more frequently used Australianisms. Today “the world’s gone bloody mad’” seems to be the most-used phrase of our vocabulary.

Having spent the last five weeks in the UK, those five words are used as regularly as they are in most countries I visit today.

To be fair, some topics we hear or read about border on pure absurdity, provoking the theory that the world has actually gone mad. At times it is hard to disagree with this sentiment.

The problem is, n

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